The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-18
SPIES AND MISS VANZANDT.
The Silly, Headstrong Young Woman
Insists on Marrying the Anarchist,
And the Match Is Sanctioned by Her Parents
Her Wealthy Relatives Threaten to
Completely Disinherit Her.


Completely Disinherit Her.
CHICAGO, Jan. 17-Marriage License Clerk
Eugene Segur received the following dispatch
this afternoon from Pittsburg
Issue no license to Miss Vanzandt and Spies to be
MRs JOHN ARTHuRs.
After reading the telegram Mr.. Sseur said:
II shall refer the matter to County Clerk Wulf,
and act under his Instructions Personally, I
do not think license should be issued" Mr..
Segur added that he understood the lady send
ing the telegram is Miss Vanzandt's grand
mother, and is quite wealthy.
The dispatch from Mrs. Arthurs was read to
Miss Vanzandt at her home tonight by a re-
porter. The young womans mother and an
elderly gentleman friend of the family were
present. Miss Vanzandt turned to her mother
and sad
Mamma, will have to ask you to leave the
room.
The mother gently demonstrated "rhen 1
must not be interrupted. said the young wom-
an. Mrs Vanzandt reminded Miss Vanzandt
that her aunt in Pittsburg had always loved her
dearly, and nothing must be said that ought not
20. Not needing, the young lady turned to the
reporter as if about to hurl deadly missile, and
said
Are you ready7r
II am resolutely replied the reporter.
Miss Vanzandt threw back her shoulders lifted
her chin tri1e, and said: 81 consider it an un-
warrantable outrage. There, ncw!'
In vain Mrs Vanzandt interposed
IF you interrupt me, mamma, either you or
will have to leave the roo1a," she continued with
flashing eyes THAT message from Pittsburg l
consider an unwarrantable interference, and it
will not deter me in the least. Now" added the
altering
news for you. l have a bomb ready to be pub
!ished. 1t was written by Mr.. Spies and is an
account of his life, and will also contain all the
letters written to me. I have written the pref
ace myself It Will be published by Nina Van
zandt, which will be something of novelty,
don't you know. for at that time there will be no
such person. shall then be Mrs. Spies"
The prospective bride added that it has be-
come necessary TO postpone the marriage again
somewhat. and that the ceremony would not
take place on Thursday, but the delay would not
be long.
Marriage-lcense Clerk Segur was again seen.
He said he was now confirmed in his original lu-
tention not to issue license until compelled to
by legal process. II believe that this whole
thing is got up by some sharp-witted friends
of Spies" said he, ''who propose to use an inno-
cent and foolish young girl to create sympathy
for him in the hope that the Governor may par
don him or commute his sentence. The passage
In an interview with Miss Vanzandt, where she
says that Spies has experienced change of
heart and will be better man if he
is ever liberated, convinces that the
scheme is to represent him reformed and
entitled to executive clemency. know Spiess
nature too well to believe that he loves the girl.
l don't believe that she loves him, but she
thinks she does l think the real affinity is be-
tween Miss Vanzandt who has nine dogs, and
Mrs. Captain Black, who has sixty dogs. /
gard it as an outrage on decency and insult
to the law that this man Spies, with. his neck in
a halter, should defy all the dictates of honor
and manhood, and seek to drag down to his own
disgrace an inRocent and foolish girl, and pro-
pose to call on Mr.. Vanzandt and represent the
thing to him as l look at it. l may be thrown
out but think if he is the right sort of a man
he will not let his daughter commit an act which
may gain her little notoriery now, but will DE
an everlasting disgrace hereafter"
Judge Prendergast, of the county court when
asked tonight if he would perform the marriage
ceremony for Spies and Miss Vanzandt. said:
Eyes; have been asked. and will officiate"
els there anything improper or illegal in q
marriage under the circums taneesP
''As to the propriety, that is matter of taste
and opinion, with which have nothing to do.
There is nothing, far as l know, to render
such marriage illegal"
PITrsBURG, Jan. 17--Upon receipt of the AS
socated Press dispatch from Chicago stating
that Mrs John Arthurs, the aunt Of Miss Van
zandt, had relegraphed from this city to Mar
riage Clerk Segur forbidding him issuing a
license for the marriage of the young lady to
Spies. the Anarchist. Commercial Gazette re-
Oakland, to ascertain the attitude of Miss Van
zaudts friends in regard to her conduct. Mrs
Arthurs seemed heart-broken. To the reporter
she said:
Il spent nearly the entire Sabbath on my
knees IN prayer for that infatuated girl. and
when opened the paper this morning, and saw
that Mr. Eugene Segur, the Chicago marriage
license clerk, had refused the license, so that she
could not marry, thanked God for what seemed
a direct answer to my prayers, and then the
next thing did was to send a telegram to Mr..
Segur thanking him for his manliness and cour-
age in daring to refuse the license"
! The first intimation which the relatives had of
| the existing state OF affairs was the announce
| ment made in the papers of Saturday morning
| last The shock to Mrs. Arthurs and her dis
| tlnguished father and mother can readily be
imagined, especially as Miss Vanzandt's mother,
who is the only sister OF Mrs. Artkurs, had been
visiting her parents and sister just two weeks
| previous and with the exception of iok:ngly re-
marking that Nina expected to Harry some nice
Young man in the spring, had made nothing
| known and had not given the slightest hint ir
| the true direction. On reading the news, 81
great was the prostration of Mrs .Arthursi
father, MIR. VIM. B. Clark, that Mrs. Arthur.
was obliged to write to the Vanzandts the mes
sage he wished to send.
The letter was mailed by 10 o'clock Saturday
morning, imploring them to prevent the wed
ding This was closely followed by another
and the Vanzant family were informed tina
henceforth they were not to be considered il
| aud financially was dissolved forever, and Mis-
Nina utterly disinherited.
''She will receive no moro than our dog lyin
there on the rug; every dollar will be bequeathe
to charitable purposes" said Mrs Arthurs, a
she wiped the bitter tears from her eyes.
This morning letter was received from Mrs
Vanzandt. from Chicago, written before the re
! CENT of those sent from Pittsburg. in which sh
informs her relatives Of Nna's approaching maj
riage to Spies, the Anarchist, and invites Their
. | to be present at the ceremony, which is to b
performed on Thursday. in the Jail in Chicago
, adding, also. that she aud Mr.. VaEzandt coult
find no fault in the man. and had given thei
; full consent to the nuptials. and that she hopes
, the friends here would not worry themselves
'This letter." continued Mrs. Arthurs, swhic
shows Nina's parents to be as highly blamabl
as Nina herself, only made father and all of a
. more firm in the discrimination to disown tn